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the burden of proving such fact shall lie upon the person claiming compensation.
21. The administrator shall in no case be liable for loss or injury to any articles or goods to be carried by the railway unless it shall have been caused by negligence or misconduct on the part of his agents or servants, and unless the articles or goods in respect of which compensation is claimed shall have been booked and paid for in conformity with this Ordinance.
22. (1) The responsibility of the administrator for the loss, destruction or deterioration of animals delivered to be carried on the railway shall not in any case exceed, in the case of horses three hundred and fifty dollars a head, in the case of mules, donkeys or horned cattle one hundred dollars a head, in the case of sheep, goats, dogs or other animals twenty dollars a head, unless the person sending or delivering them caused them to be declared or declared them at the time of their delivery to be respectively of higher value.
Liability for loss or injury in respect of goods.
Provision as to liability in respect of carriage
of certain animals.
increased
(2) Where such higher value has been declared, the administrator may charge in respect of the increased risk a percentage upon the excess of the value so declared over the respective sums aforesaid.
23. The administrator shall not be responsible for the loss, destruction or deterioration of any passenger's luggage unless it has been delivered into the custody of a railway official.
Liability as to passenger's luggage.
Liability as
to articles
of special
value.
24.—(1) When any articles mentioned in the Schedule are contained in any parcel or package delivered to the administrator for carriage by railway and the value of such articles exceeds one hundred dollars, the administrator shall not be responsible beyond that sum for the loss, destruction or deterioration of the articles in the parcel or package unless the person sending or delivering it caused its value and contents to be declared or declared them at the time of its delivery, and if so required paid or engaged to pay a percentage on the value so declared in respect of the increased risk.
(2) When any parcel or package of which the value has been declared under sub-section (1) has been lost or destroyed
* As amended by No. 28 of 1927 [23.12.27].
+ As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
Compensa-tion on recovery to exceed the value declared.
RAILWAYS.
No. 21 of 1909.
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the burden of proving such fact shall lie upon the person claiming compensation.
21. The administrator shall in no case be liable for loss or injury to any articles or goods to be carried by the railway unless it shall have been caused by negligence or misconduct on the part of his agents or servants, and unless the articles or goods in respect of which compensation is claimed shall have been booked and paid for in conformity with this Ordinance.
22. (1) The responsibility of the administrator for the loss, destruction or deterioration of animals delivered to be carried on the railway shall not in any case exceed, in the case of horses three hundred and fifty dollars a head, in the case of mules, donkeys or horned cattle one hundred dollars a head, in the case of sheep, goats, dogs or other animals twenty dollars a head, unless the person sending or delivering them caused them to be declared or declared them at the time of their delivery to be respectively of higher value.
Liability for loss or injury in respect of goods.
*
Provision as to liability in respect of carriage
of certain animals.
increased
(2) Where such higher value has been declared, the adminis- Charge on trator may charge in respect of the increased risk a percentage risk. upon the excess of the value so declared over the respective sums aforesaid.
23. The administrátor shall not be responsible for the loss, destruction or deterioration of any passenger's luggage unless it has been delivered into the custody of a railway official.
Liability as to passenger's luggage.
Liability as
to articles
*
24.—(1) When any articles mentioned in the Schedule are contained in any parcel or package delivered to the adminis-
of special trator for carriage by railway and the value of such articles value. exceeds one hundred dollars, the administrator shall not be
Schedule. for the loss, destruction or responsible beyond that sum for the deterioration of the articles in the parcel or package unless the person sending or delivering it caused its value and contents to be declared or declared them at the time of its delivery, and if so required paid or engaged to pay a percentage on the value so declared in respect of the increased risk.
(2) When any parcel or package of which the value has been declared under sub-section (1) has been lost or destroyed
* As amended by No. 28 of 1927 [23.12.27].
+ As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.
Compensa- on recove
tion recover-
exceed the value declared.
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